Tag: climate change

• Sustainability champions Vin + Omi bring royal nettles to London Fashion Week

  

  One of the most quirky eco-friendly contributions to this year’s London Fashion Week, Sting, an event launching the Spring/Summer 2020 collection by Vin + Omi, featured clothing made from nettles harvested at Prince Charles’s rural Highgrove estate.

• Global recycling crisis sparks fresh thinking on packaging

  

  Versatile and durable, plastic has revolutionised modern life. But 63% of products sold in the food and beverage, beauty, home care and pet food sectors are now packaged in plastic. More than 8bn tons of this near-indestructible material has been produced since 1960. Global efforts to recover and recycle it barely dent the problem. Before […]

• Is veganism the new normal?

  

  Greggs’ quorn ‘sausage’ roll may have offended Piers Morgan, but for others it signalled a new era. The Vegan Society reports a fourfold increase in the number of UK vegans since 2014, from 150,000 to 600,000. 42% of those switched in 2018.

• Go vegan – it’s good for you and great for the planet!

  

  Whether you’ve just resolved to give up meat for the 2018 new year, or have been avoiding all animal products for years now, it does no harm to review the benefits of veganism, both to you and the planet.

• How dirty is your laundry?

  

  Responsible fashionistas are already cutting back on dry cleaning and washing their everyday clothes at 30°C. We thought it worth taking a closer look at the ethics of that washday.

• Why fashion needs to slow down

  

  Fashion is now the second biggest polluter in the world. Our fast fashion mentality is having a devastating impact on the environment, with 350,000 tonnes of clothing a year added to landfill in the UK alone.